Hail America, bright city on a hill,
Exemplar to the world of self-deception
Hail to the proud ingenuity
Of your unspeakable cruelty
Packaged as a mode of self-defense.
You have reinvented concentration camps
And made them great again for persecution.
The worst of the worst who work in crummy jobs
Can now expect to spend their wretched days
In chain-link cages fit for mangy dogs.
The land of the free imprisons more folks
Than any other land. Stalin, you’re old news.
A new Chief Criminal has taken charge.
All you Ku Klux Klaners, he has surpassed
Your nightmare dreams for people black and brown.
The government can arrest and put away
Any immigrant or those who look the part
On any pretense. No need to follow law.
Its forces are a law unto themselves
And their power is spreading. No one is safe.
Alligators and pythons will guard the gates.
When the floods and hurricanes arrive
They can float inside and have a snack
On some immigrant who sought a better life
And became an entrée for things that bite.
Our leader wants a Nobel Prize for Peace.
He’s going to get the Abu Ghraib Prize
For cruelty done in the name of sport.
May he enjoy round after round of golf
Until a gator finds him near its pond.
